THIS
WEEKEND
Dartmouth returns home after two weeks on the road to square off with
ECAC Hockey foes Cornell and Colgate on Friday and Saturday nights. The Friday
night tilt with the Big Red will be broadcast live from Thompson Arena on Fox
College Sports at 7 p.m.

LAST TIME
OUTThe Big Green played to a 1-1 tie Sunday afternoon at Harvard in a
game that had been rescheduled from the night before due to the snowstorm that
blanketed New England. Andy Simpson scored the team's lone goal and Cab Morris
turned aside 21 shots in the draw.

WHERE WE
STAND
The point with Harvard helped the Green keep pace in the ECAC Hockey
race for a top-4 spot and a first-round bye. With 17 points on a 7-6-3 league
record, the Green are tied for third in the standings with both Princeton and
Rensselaer and sit just two points back of Yale. The Elis' 1-0 loss to Brown on
Tuesday also helped Dartmouth keep pace in the Ivy League race as the Bulldogs'
12 points are just two better than the team from the Upper Valley.

WHERE WE
RANK
For the 14th straight week, Dartmouth earned a place in the USCHO.com Division
I poll, holding the No. 17 spot once again. In the USA Today/USA Hockey
Magazine rankings, the Big Green are just outside of the top-15, earning 13
votes, the 17th-highest figure and a jump up from seven votes a week ago.

BACK ON
THE TUBE
Friday night's
contest will be broadcast live on Fox College Sports. Greg Madden will handle
play-by-play duties, while Sonny Watrous will provide color analysis. Fans can
also listen to WFRD's broadcast with Chris Garrett - the "Voice of Big Green
Men's Hockey" - on 99.3 FM or online at DartmouthSports.com.

SCOUTING
CORNELL
The Big Red limp into the weekend on a seven-game slide and a 2-10
stretch since the start of the second half of the season. Most recently, that
stretch of frustration continued with a 1-0 loss at Princeton last week despite
outshooting the Tigers, 39-12, and holding them to zero shots on goal in the
third period. The loss dropped their record to 8-13-2 overall this season and
4-10-2 in league play, good for just 10 points to currently occupy 11th place
in the standings. Just 2-7 away from home this season, Cornell is led in
scoring by senior Greg Miller and his 19 points (8g/11a). Junior Andy Iles has
played every minute in goal this season for the team and boasts a .907 save
percentage and a goals-against average of 2.56. Cornell is the only team in the
Ivy League not to win a game (0-5-1) against the other five programs.

AGAINST
CORNELL THIS SEASON
In the earlier match-up between the two teams this season, Dartmouth
captain Mike Keenan tied the game in the final minute with the goalie pulled
for the extra attacker to force a 1-1 tie at Lynah Rink on Nov. 17. Keenan's
shot came with 51 seconds left in regulation and answered a Dustin Mowrey goal
at the 9:41 mark of the third that gave Cornell the 1-0 lead. Freshman
goaltender Charles Grant stopped 26 shots.

SCOUTING
COLGATE
The Raiders come to Hanover also on a bit of a slide, having lost its
last two following two straight ties on the North Country road swing. Colgate's
biggest knock coming into the season was that it would lack the scoring touch
it had last season. That has not been the case in Hamilton as the team leads
ECAC Hockey in offense at 3.25 goals per game with five players already
reaching the 20-point mark this season. Freshman Tylor Spink leads the way with
25 points, while classmate Kyle Baun has a team-best 10 goals. Rookie Spencer
Finney (8-7-3, 2.31, .914) has seen the majority of time in net recently after
taking over for junior Eric Mihalik (5-4-1, 2.81, .894) at midseason.

AGAINST
COLGATE THIS SEASON
The Raiders' 5-4 home win over Dartmouth back on Nov. 16 might have
been the most thrilling ECAC Hockey game of the season. With the Green leading
4-1 early in the third, Colgate rattled off four-unanswered tallies in the
final period to take the victory. Capped by Robbie Bourdon's hat-trick marker
with just three seconds left, the Raiders handed the Big Green their first loss
of 2012-13, knocking off Dartmouth as the last unbeaten team in the country.

SIX NO MOREThe tie at a sold-out Lynah Rink in November snapped the Big Red's
six-game win streak over the Big Green dating back to the 2010-11 season. In
all, Dartmouth is winless in its last eight vs. Cornell (0-6-2) with the last victory
coming back on Feb. 20, 2010 (5-4) in Hanover. Last season, the Red took all
four games in the series, including a sweep (2-0) in the ECAC Hockey
quarterfinals.

CLOSER THAN
YOU THINK
Despite the outcomes, this Cornell-Dartmouth series has been much
closer than people would think at first glance. Nine of the last 10 contests
between the two have either been decided by one goal (7) or ended in a draw
(2). The lone game not decided by one tally was the elimination game in last
season's postseason when Cornell won, 3-1.

SIMPSON'S
STRIKE
Junior defenseman Andy Simpson's second goal of the season came midway
through Sunday's first period in Cambridge to give his team the early 1-0 lead.
The third goal of his career, it marked Simpson's first against an opponent
other than St. Lawrence. He had one in the postseason series with the Saints
last season before notching his first of 2012-13 on Jan. 25 at home against
SLU.

SLUMPING!?
For the first time all season, Tyler Sikura failed to register a point
in consecutive games when he was held off the scoresheet at Harvard. Sikura has
points in 19 of the team's 23 games this season and leads the way with 26 on
nine goals and 17 assists.

LINEUP
CHANGE UP
Out of the lineup against the Crimson were junior Matt Lindblad and
Brandon McNally for the forwards, while Nick Lovejoy once again was not dressed
on defense.

LAST LINE
Cab Morris continues to be solid in the
Dartmouth goal during his junior season. After the tie with Harvard, Morris'
figures stand at an impressive .923 save percentage and 1.97 goals-against
average, while boasting an 8-4-3 record (6.33 win %).
HOME SWEET HOMEDartmouth returns to the friendliest confines of Thompson Arena this
weekend. In 2012-13 there are few places the Big Green would rather be than its
home building as they have posted a 9-2 mark in Hanover this season. In
contrast, the road has been a bit of a challenge as the team is just 2-6-4 in
12 games away from the Upper Valley.

Home

ECAC Rank

Road

ECAC Rank

Goals

41

4th

26

11th

Goals/Game

3.73

2nd

2.17

12th

Points

108

3rd

66

11th

Points/Game

9.82

2nd

5.5

12th

Power Play

17.1%

-

20.5%

-

Penalty Kill

91.3%

-

85.7%

-

SOG

29.36

9th

29.75

5th

BENCH
BOSSES
This weekend will see three of the top four current coaches in ECAC Hockey on
the benches at Thompson Arena. Cornell's Mike Schafer ranks second amongst
current coaches in the conference with 340 wins in his 18 seasons at Cornell.
Colgate's Don Vaugh has 327 career victories in 20 seasons to rank third, while
Bob Gaudet has 323 wins at Brown and Dartmouth in 26 seasons as a head coach,
including the last 15 at Dartmouth. Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold leads all ECAC
Hockey coaches in career wins with 358 between the DI and DII ranks with the
Bobcats.

VOTE FOR
HOBEYFan voting is open
for the 2013 Hobey Baker Award, given annually to college hockey's best player.
Dartmouth has two nominees on this season's fan ballot as both Matt Lindblad
and Sikura make their first appearances.

WEEKEND WARRIORSCornell has the lowest goals per game figure of any team in the league on
Saturdays, averaging just 2.08, while ranking ninth in Friday tilts at 2.36
goals per. Colgate is pretty consistent from night to night with 2.79 goals on
Fridays (5th) and 3.23 on Saturdays (3rd). The Big Green average the
second-best goal output on Friday nights at 3.38, while ranking fifth on
Saturdays with 2.64.

EXTRA TIME
Dartmouth is 0-1-4 in
overtime games this season. Then-fifth-ranked Quinnipiac remains the only team
to take down the Green in OT this year (3-2 - Jan. 4), while Yale, Cornell,
Union and now Harvard have all skated to draws with the team from the Upper
Valley.

ON TV
In five televised games this season, Dartmouth is 1-1-3
following the tie at Harvard on Feb. 10.
NHL UPDATE
- Former Big Green
defenseman Ben Lovejoy '06 was traded from Pittsburgh to Anaheim last week in
exchange for a 5th-Round Draft Pick in 2014. In his 101st career game played on
Tuesday night, Lovejoy recorded his first two points with the Ducks, assisting
on two goals against Chicago, including the game-tying marker that would
eventually lead the team to a shootout win over the Blackhawks.

- Monday, Feb. 11 set
up for a match-up of Dartmouth alumni as the Colorado Avalanche and Phoenix
Coyotes met in Denver. David Jones '08 of the Avs played in the game, but
former Big Green teammate Nick Johnson '08 was a scratch and did not play for
the Yotes. Johnson scored Feb. 2 against Dallas and has three goals and four
points in eight games during his first season with the team.

- TJ Galiardi '10 has
two assists in nine games this year with the San Jose Sharks.

- In his first season
with Pittsburgh, Tanner Glass '07 has yet to register a point and ranks fifth
on the team with 12 PIM. Of six former Big Green players currently in the NHL,
Glass is the only one on an Eastern Conference team following Lovejoy's trade.

WHAT'S
AHEAD?
After playing host to Cornell and Colgate, Dartmouth will head out on
the road for the final time in the 2012-13 regular season next weekend as it
heads to the North Country to take on St. Lawrence and Clarkson. The Big Green
split with the Saints and Golden Knights in January in Hanover.